Controversy in Germany

I can only presume there was a hole in the back of the net

poor work from the officials all round:

1/ missed the fact that the ball went wide

2/ clearly didn't check the nets before kicking off as they are supposed to do

there are no laws of football that allow the decision to be changed after the fact. if the league chooses to replay it then that's fine IF both teams agree or if they have it written into the league competition rules. but let's be honest, if this were the prem and man úre had just beaten blackpool 2-1 with such a dodgy goal would there have been a replay? or would holloway just get fined again for almost getting a draw?

The hole might have appeared after they were checked. Never heard of the Rielite worm?

There are a number of issues that come out of this, one being the incompetence of the officials in giving the goal and not spotting a hole in the net. But the other issue is around video technology. We know the technology exists to spot things like this but I still think there is a whole debate to be had on how that technology is used.

This 'goal' was scored in the 70th minute and made the score 2-0 to Leverkusen. Sitting in my living room in England I picked up the details via twitter and you tube and posted it on 606 before Hoffenheim pulled a goal back in the 88th minute. So everyone in the world with internet access could have known what had happened before the game finished but the game still went to a conclusion. Don't know what could have happened to use the technology better but surely something would have been better than nothing to avoid this ridiculous injustice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24589671

Cheap German nets !!! That's the problem !

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And to think that it's a German firm in charge of goal-line technology...

The worst thing for me is the player actually puts his head in his hands when he knows he's missed.

Hardly the routine actions of someone who scored a goal. If that didn't ring any alarms then he's in the wrong job.

...the ref, not the player

Result stands, no replay.